May I suggest some casual reading on IMS version 8, 9, and 10.
See all the things IMS can NOT do.

Ivan


-----Original Message-----
From: ken farmer
[mailto:db2udbdba-ezmlmshield-x45423281.[Email address protected]
Sent: Tuesday, June 28, 2005 8:40 AM
To: LazyDBA Discussion
Subject: Re: DBA Role


Santosh_Nambiar wrote:

> Hi All,
> Everybody is talking about DB2/Oracle/Sybase/Sql server....How about
> IMS/IDMS...I am at the beginning of my career and am working as a DBA
on
> DB2 Mainframe...i thought IMS would be a good option to learn after
DB2
> as they are on same platform...but now, do I have to look into AIX....

I used to use IMS/DB back in the mid-eighties. That was a mildly
unpleasant experience - typical mainframe cryptic commands, and the
database is only fast for those queries that it is specifically designed

for. Need to know anything else and it's both a lot of work and slow.

Meanwhile, I haven't seen a new app go to IMS/DB since probably 1989.
But quite a few moved from IMS/DB to its relational competitors. I'd
consider it a serious dead-end.

ken farmer



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